#Methodological

Rex Douglass

RexDouglass

Polity's measurement problems have been known since the 90s. Vdem was made bc of them. The new score is below 1800s levels which is impossible. So what are we supposed

Marion Campbell

MarionKCampbell

Recently I have been reviewing a number of trial protocols. One reflection is the growing trend of noting “we will write a full statistical analysis plan” without giving any further

Rebecca Burch, MD

RebeccaCBurch

“Why did my paper get rejected?” Recent conversations with researcher friends made me realize that academic journal/editorial decision making can feel very opaque. To shed some light, here’s a rough

Michael P. Hengartner, PhD

HengartnerMP

I have to get this off my chest. So Bob Whitaker wrote a concise article about the methodological limitations of the Tiihonen studies that allegedly show lower mortality risk with

Cody VanZandt

CodyVanZandt

(1/n) I spoke to yet another advanced CS+English double major at a DH-y uni who was thrilled but SHOCKED to hear that humanities data science (HDS) is a thing.Anecdotally, CS+HUMA

Đorđe Trikoš

trikosh

Let me try to gently deconstruct this claim, and demonstrate that it is not merely a nonsense, but — and irrespective of whether intentional or not — a particularly malignant

Isaiah Turnbull

isaiah_turnbull

For @chrishorn. How I review an article. 1. Read it front to back (skim methods). Review the citations in the intro. If you don’t know the article, pull them and

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

you're told that what goes on in other countries is none of your concern & you should only care about what's happening inside your borders. ppl still tend to equate

Dave Hoffman

HoffProf

So (a Yale so!), @tesswilkry & I are talking offline about how the idea of genius works in the legal academy. Genius / smart / playful / glib are all

Ben Golub

ben_golub

"Reductionist" (i.e., most economic) theories of collective action explain acts like voting by individual incentives, perhaps including "social" phenomena via payoff terms like social pressure or warm glow.A short thread

Ignacio M. Sánchez Prado

isanchezprado

What I have been thinking as someone that likes the work of Rita Felski and that agrees with some (though not all) the critiques raised by Sheila Liming, is how

Simon Frankel Pratt

Simon_the_Pratt

SO qualitative vs quantitative rant.These are overlapping, indistinct, and disanalogous categories! ALL EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IS QUALITATIVE! ALL EMPIRICAL DATA ARE QUALITATIVE! Even if we use stats, we are still representing/analysing

Jessica Hullman

JessicaHullman

Since there was interest in how I addressed this question, here's a thread on what I said in class. TLDR: if you're operating under certain narrow assumptions about what data

Theo Zanos

theozanos

1/Now in @NatMachIntell: our Matters Arising paper describing our external validation of a COVID-19 mortality prediction model by Yan et al., in collaboration with Matt Barish, @SiaBolourani, @LawrieLau @sareenshahmd https://www.nature.com/

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clbolt

In the same way I don't stop a street preacher or apologist for a homiletics lecture or methodological critique, I don't attack Christians facing off with the state or hostile

George Wⓐlkden

gwalkden

I see a chunk of linguistics Twitter is debating what "language" means again. I'm afraid I don't find this a hugely worthwhile activity. (1/) Obviously the term has an everyday

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